Share thoughts, models, inspirations around the use of video and screencasting in teaching...
Sal Khan and others have explored the model of "flipped instruction" which invokes the idea of self-paced, or highly differentiated mastery learning using some amount video content.
Dan Meyers and others critique the simple screencast tutorial, with direct instruction as the dominant modality, as a replication of an ineffective practice that shortchanges higher order thinking and short-sells the importance of live interaction, presenting an alternative vision of video and tech usage in the service of "perplexity" as he calls it.
Enter the fray! Share your thoughts and links to inspiring resources around the use of video and screencasting in teaching. Can the visions presented by Khan and Meyers coexist in the same classroom?
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Screencast and Pedagogy
I find it most useful to combine the two "theories" to produce the most effective instruction. In an effort to create an asynchronous online curriculum that is still rigorous, I have taught the lessons the way that I would have taught them in class and simply created a screencast of that lesson. I use many of the teaching strategies that I employ in the traditional classroom in my screencasts and enable student to teacher interaction through the use of questions that students must respond to via email, but that it one of the major challenges of online instruction.